The artist examines six of the 62 covers he did for the popular pulp magazine. In the mid-1970s, artist Graves Gladney sat down with pulp fans Terry Klasek and...
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The artist holds nothing back when talking about other artists, both classic and contemporary. Graves Gladney painted some of the most iconic covers for The...
The artist candidly reflects on his craft and his work in the pulps. Graves Gladney painted some of the most iconic covers for The Shadow. He produced 62...
On April 8, 1949, Street & Smith canceled its last four pulp magazines: The Shadow, Doc Savage, Detective Story and Western Story. Here’s the story of the day...
A new generation of fans discovered Doc Savage thanks to the Bantam paperback reprints. One of the key figures behind the success of the Man of Bronze's return...
The story is worth more than the paper it is printed on. Frank Munsey turned those words into action when he revamped Argosy magazine in the 1890s and...
From the spring of 1931 until the summer of 1949, a slim figure cloaked in black fought mobsters, evil scientists, crazed old men and foreign invaders with two...
Prior to writing The Shadow tales, Walter Gibson spent 10 years writing syndicated newspaper columns on puzzles, games and other parlor tricks. He was friends...
The cover of the first issue of The Shadow pulp may have looked familiar to some longtime pulp readers in 1931. In the introduction to Dover’s 1975...
On radio and in the 1994 film, The Shadow uses a telepathic ability to “cloud men's minds so that they cannot see him.” In the pulps, such was not...